PC Smith went to see a Fanny Hudgell, a single woman, of Birchanger Green who complained that during the night of the 17th February 1882 she had a jacket stolen from her house. PC Smith then went to the house of a Charles Turner in Bishops Stortford and recovered the jacket. Turner said that his ...
17 Feb 1882
PC Smith was on duty in Hockerill where he conferred with PC 20 and DCC Ryder and received information concerning a piece o beef weighing 1 lb 3oz value 1 shilling being stolen.
10 Mar 1882
PC Smith was informed about the theft of piece of beef from a van whilst it was in London Road between Sawbridgeworth and Harlow. A suspect was named as William Cowland age 24 years of Sawbridgeworth by his employer Samuel Herbert Johnson of Bishops Stortford. Another man was seen to be in charge of a ...
10 Mar 1882
PC Smith was tasked with making enquiries in Bishops Stortford about a Faggoting Bill (marked with makers name “C Perry”) stolen on the 26th November 1881 from the premises of J L Glasscock’s (John Laybank Glasscock a local builder whose brickworks was near Collins Cross on Stansted Road Ed.), and by owned by a William ...
28 Nov 1881
PC Smith was on duty in North Street Bishops Stortford when he apprehended Charles Kelgour, a tramp, for begging alms. The following day he attended the Corn Exchange Bishops Stortford for the Petty Sessions and before Magistrate Reverend F Vander-Meulen the case against Kelgour was heard. He was sentenced to 14 days in Cambridge Prison.
23 Jun 1882
PC Smith attended the Petty Sessions at Bishops Stortford Corn Exchange – continued on next page.
02 Sep 1882
PC Smith attended before the Reverend F Vander-Meulen Magistrate with George Fuller of Bishops Stortford charged with deserting his wife and children. He was committed to Cambridge Prison for 14 days hard labour.
02 Sep 1882
PC Smith detained two vagrants and they appeared before The Reverend F. Vander-Meulen at the Bishops Stortford Petty Sessions held at the Corn Exchange where they were both sentenced to 14 days in Cambridge gaol.
07 Oct 1881
PC Smith, with colleagues, was involved in Weights and Measures testing in Bishops Stortford over the next few days. (There were no Trading Standards Officers at this time and the responsibility for the checking for accuracy of the local traders scales etc lay with the Police Ed).
07 Jul 1882
PC Smith appeared before F Vander-Meulen Magistrate at the Petty Sessions held at the Corn Exchange Bishops Stortford regarding James Lyns a prisoner charged with assaulting and beating his wife on the 15th July 1882. He was remanded until the next Petty Sessions on the 20th July.
17 July 1882
